Sentences with phrase «for electricity ratepayers»

Surplus base load generation caused by renewable energy will add more costs for electricity ratepayers 25.

Not exact matches

Even in states that wish to favor coal - fired power, it will be difficult to convince ratepayers that they ought to pay more for electricity from coal than they could pay for electricity from alternative sources.

In a speech to her party on Saturday, Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne acknowledged rising electricity prices that are roiling ratepayers in province, calling it her «mistake» and taking responsibility for «for not paying close enough attention to some of the daily stresses in Ontarians» lives.»

«LIPA ratepayers are still paying among the highest costs for electricity in the nation,» DiNapoli said, «The recent survey from the consumer satisfaction perspective shows that Long Islanders are still unhappy with the service.»

Nuclear power is not «too cheap to meter,» and in fact, despite hundreds of billions of dollars in government subsidies and in ratepayer charges, nuclear power greatly trails other fuels as a source of electricity and is useless in providing for the world's other major energy needs, including transportation.

The Liberal government announced the plan in the throne speech opening the fall session of the legislature, saying Ontario's eight - per - cent slice of the HST would be taken off electricity bills, and promising additional relief for rural ratepayers.

Peevey laid out the terms of a deal to close SONGS in exchange for permission from the CPUC to SCE to increase electricity rates in order to charge ratepayers $ 3.3 billion, and investors an additional $ 1.4 billion, even though a new steam generator could have been purchased and installed for well under $ 1 billion.

O'Neil said the exodus of wind spending that Payne bemoaned is a major victory for groups like FMM, who argue that erecting wind turbines is a waste of taxpayer and ratepayer money that will hurt Maine's economy by raising electricity costs while impeding tourism, Maine's biggest industry.

For the average ratepayer, an annual electricity bill will escalate from $ 1,700 per year to $ 2,800 by 2015 and by the time the renewables envisaged in the LTEP are largely in place (expected in 2018) an average ratepayer will be paying in excess of $ 4,000 annually — well over a doubling.

While consumers in the neighboring states benefit from lower electricity costs, California's ratepayers are footing the bill for the utility generators that produce the power.

AGL is being acquired by Southern Company, meaning three of the four partners own electricity subsidiaries that are regulated monopolies that can stick ratepayers with the cost of paying for gas.

The net result of all these tactics is that ratepayers and tax payers are more likely to pay dearly in terms of increasing rates for electricity and decreasing electric reliability since each month will bring further EPA efforts to force states to build «renewable» sources of electric power.

In New York, ratepayers will spend $ 482 million per year for 27 TWh of electricity from nuclear, at a rate of $ 17.48 per MWh.

But irrespective of this accounting legerdemain, ratepayers and taxpayers are still paying in excess of $ 120.00 / MWh for wind energy, either in taxes, utility fees or increased cost of goods and services that depend upon electricity to be delivered.

What that means is, Ontario's electricity ratepayers subsidized the sale, picking up the difference of $ l47.4 million, along with another $ 30.8 million for the 254,000 MWh of curtailed wind.

Republicans argue that his moves to rein in emissions will kill jobs and raise electricity prices for ratepayers.

Electricity deregulation meant that ratepayers did not pay for all the construction costs of Exelon's Illinois nuclear plants.

«Kinder Morgan, the nation's biggest energy infrastructure company, dropped its plan for the Northeast Energy Direct project because of a lack of assurances that electricity ratepayers would pay for the $ 3.3 billion pipeline.»

In April, Kinder Morgan, the nation's biggest energy infrastructure company, dropped its plan for the Northeast Energy Direct project because of a lack of assurances that electricity ratepayers would pay for the $ 3.3 billion pipeline.

The claim that Illinois ratepayers «subsidized» nuclear plants requires defining all payments for electricity from nuclear as a subsidy.

The final report must also explain the rationale for NYS ratepayers to definitely increase our cost of electricity with a price on carbon is appropriate relative to the speculative effects of any SCC value.

California's three big utilities are shifting to time - of - use rates for residential customers — meaning ratepayers will be charged more for electricity when it is more valuable.

Most electricity ratepayers in Ontario are aware that contracts awarded to wind power developers following the Green Energy Act gave them 13.5 cents per kilowatt (kWh) for power generation, no matter when that power was delivered.

That $ 50.7 - million cost for the month was simply added to the costs of the electricity bills ratepayers will be obliged to pay, while some of it will deferred to the future as part of the Fair Hydro Plan.

At 10 AM that morning, Ontario's electricity ratepayers had much to be thankful for.

Eventually, under the proposed rate adjustment, increased adoption of electric vehicles, and increased home and workplace charging, could increase revenue to operate and maintain the transmission and distribution system, allowing for a longer - term reduction in electricity rates for all ratepayers.

In the seven years from 2010 to 2016, Ontario's electricity ratepayers picked up total costs of $ 7.746 billion for 56.9 TWh of grid - accepted and curtailed (4.9 TWh) wind - generated electricity.

A quick review of IESO data for Christmas Day 2017 shows our Energy Ministry delivered lumps of coal to all Ontario's electricity ratepayers, whether they were good or bad.

When you examine the Independent Electricity System Operator's data you quickly learn why the Ministry no longer brags about earning revenue from exports or keeping costs down for ratepayers.

Ratepayers can purchase «blocks of solar - power electricity for $ 24.99 per month.

Export customers paid only about 3 cents / kWh to 4 cents / kWh for Ontario power; electricity ratepayers of Ontario paid more than 8 cents / kWh for this power to be generated 27.

From 2005 to the end of our audit in 2011, Ontario received $ 1.8 billion less for its electricity exports than what it actually cost electricity ratepayers of Ontario 28.

The Perry proposal, in contrast, would: pick winners and losers, cause significant price distortions in wholesale electricity markets, constitute government interference in markets, punish ratepayers, create obstacles to private investment in generation, and increase prices for customers.

$ 169 million in 2010 and $ 296 million in 2011 would need to be recovered from electricity ratepayers for the cost of connecting renewable energy 4.

Because renewable hydropower is among the cheapest and most versatile of electricity sources, California ratepayers will have to pay for more costly fossil fuels to make up for the difference.

«The contract requires no state subsidy and provides favorable pricing for ratepayers because tests have shown the Stirling dish technology can produce electricity at significantly lower costs than other solar technologies.»

«I think it's high time we finally turn the corner on this project and also strongly protect our ratepayers, who should only have to pay for what actually delivers electricity,» said PSC chairman Brandon Presley in an interview.